Mechanical music box



(No Model.)

P. EHRLIOH.

MECHANICAL MUSIC BOX.

No. 594,236. Patented Nov. 23, 1897.

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PAUL EHRLIOH, OF LEIPSIO-GOHLIS, GERMANY.

MECHANICAL MUSIC-BOX,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 594,236, dated i\Tovember 23, 1897. Application filed December 23,1895. Serial No. 572,997. (No model.) Patented in Germany June 10, 1893, No. 79,601.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, PAUL EHRLICH, a subj ect of the King of Saxony, residing at Gohlis, near Leipsic, in the Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Mechanical Music-Boxes, (for which I have obtained a patent in Germany, No. 79,601, bearing date June 10, 1893,) of which the following is a specification.

Mechanical music-boxes in which tongues are struck by star-Wheels to make them vibrate and sound have a tiresome monotony of the sounds.

The present invention has for its object to provide music-boxes of the above-named type with means for avoiding this inconvenience of monotony. Said means consists in the combination of astar-wheel, a lever, and a soundproducing device, said star-wheel and lever being arranged alongside of each other and connected so as to simultaneously operate said tongue and sound-producing device, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

The manner in which my invention is or may be carried into effect can best be explained and understood by reference to the accompanying drawing, which represents a sectional face view of the actuating mechanism for a steel tongue and wind-reed mechanism.

In the accompanying drawing, a represents a star-wheel suitably disposed upon a shaft to, alongside of which and upon the same shaft is placed lever b. The wheel being rotated in the direction shown by the arrow by the proj ection g of the music-sheet F and the shorter arm of lever b by projections h thereof the long arm of the lever b lifts valvet' by means of the hinged rod 17, connected with lever b, and causes the wind-reed 70 to sound. The tongue 61, it will of course be seen, has been caused to vibrate and sound by one of the teeth of wheel a at the same time the valvet' was lifted to cause reed k to sound. The longer projections g of the music-sheet are of course of such width and are so arranged that they arrest only the star-wheel and not the lever Z) alongside of that wheel.

It will be understood that a number of the wheels CL and the levers b are arranged upon the shaft a, the wheels and levers being arranged alternately, and each free to turn on the shaft; and also that a corresponding num ber of tongues and reeds or other sound-producing devices are employed.

WVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a music-box the combination of a plurality of steel tongues, a plurality of soundproducing devices, distinct from the tongues, star-wheels and levers arranged alongside of one another upon a shaft, and adapted to operate said tongue and sound-producing devices, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a music-box the combination of a plurality of steel tongues, a plurality of soundproducing devices, looselydisposed starwheels and levers arranged alongside of one another upon a shaft to operate said tongues and sound-producing devices respectively, and a music-sheet adapted to operate said wheels and levers, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

3. In a music-box the combination of a plurality of steel tongues, a plurality of soundproducing devices, loosely disposed starwheels and levers arranged alongside of one another upon a shaft, and a music-sheet having projections in series to actuate the said star-wheels and levers, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PAUL EHRLICH.

WVitnesses:

RUDOLPH FRICKE, OTTO DOEDERLEIN. 

